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🌆 Evening light 🌆 To get dark
to dusk

to dusk

2 6.2
To grow dark as the sun goes down
  • verb
  • /dʌsk/
translation icon : anochecer

Examples

  • The colors from dawn to dusk.

    The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

  • I hear the churches' bells from early morning to dusk.

    Academic text (2003)

  • He stayed there from dawn to dusk with his arms outstretched.

    The Doctor (1991)

  • Most people here live in small, autonomous villages tucked into high mountain valleys and work dawn to dusk just to scratch out a meager living as subsistence farmers, shepherds, or goatherds.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The sky began to darken as the day moved toward dusk.

  • We can see the stars come out as it starts to grow dusk.

  • She loved taking long walks just before dusk when the air cooled down.

Synonyms

darkening
vsto dusk
3.4

Becoming less light as evening comes or clouds gather

refer to growing dark specifically as evening approaches

Antonyms

to lighten
16 2.3

To make a place or color look brighter

Idioms

dawn to dusk
2 2.8

All day from sunrise until sunset

dusk to dawn
1 3.5

From evening until morning

How Dark

to dusk
2 6.2
to darken
63 3.3
to dim
12 2.4
to fade
531 1.2

Surface Forms

dusk infinitive
dusked past
dusked past participle
dusking present participle
dusks third person singular

Etymology

The word dusk as a verb comes from an old word meaning 'dark', like in dusky. To dusk means to 'become dark', so it describes the sky or day as evening grows darker.